Can you imagine what the large volume of AH traffic must be for this game? with only 1 AH for the US, and another for the EU, the sheer magnitude of the volume would be hard to design and test for until the game went live.
The only flaw i see with their issues is the lack of multiple US/EU servers to lessen the load on each individual AH. Say US East/Midwest/West, etc.
I love how all the people whine about it being short and how they wont replay it.. blah blah blah...
The whole part of diablo is the replayability, 3 more levels of difficulty, many events/side quests you have never seen or done. Every new difficulty adds more layers of what to pay attention to, sure you may overpower diablo in Normal, as its possible to out level him if you do all the quests and what not. Harder to do in Nightmare, virtually impossible in Hell, and your cannon fodder in Inferno
Color does not make it better. I am only working thru normal, and I had picked up some yellows that are actually inferior to blues I got just a bit farther along. Stats is what matters.
3 hours on release day between my 2 jobs, same for Wed, but i get a few more hours Wed Night, Thursday is 3 hours, then Friday I get the 3, plus a night full of playing, probably starting a new toon that night with the wife.
wont get to fully devote time till mid june when school is out and I go down to my PT job.
I got a nice 3 hour mid day break every day home to myself for D3 time, plus I get a couple of weeknights as well. Then the weekend comes, and I get to start a new toon to play thru the game with my wife as well
One thing people are not taking into account on the created channels, is using WoW as example, the channels you create are only server wide. now consider there is only 1 regional server, the dynamics of operating a system for server wide chat has completely changed, he demands and sheer numbers of channels on one server is crazy.
for in game, I found that Skype in the background, once you switch on push-to-talk is an awesome free voice chat... beats typing any day.
with the pure randomness of affixes, i doubt you would want to just give mats to someone to craft for you, you would most likely not get something you want in return.
I was in before the restart and playing, and over 175000 people were in playing. All the nubs choosing to play a free video game, that will have no intention of ever buying Diablo 3 are crushing the servers. I played thru the beta last night, and again this AM, and was halfway thru when the servers came down. Played with my wife and another friend and we never had any issues to speak of, and I would like to add that Skype in the background for voice chat for the 3 of us was awesome and caused no issues at all.
I have to laugh at all the fanboy QQ about the layoffs...and the blaming of Morhaine(sp?)...
I would bet the call came from Activision to make the layoffs. Also, Layoffs have happened in EVERY industry, EVERY job sector, and continue to happen in this economy in this country and around the world.
I read the estimate of 4000 WoW support staff, and if you consider WoW alon has lost over 10% of its subscriptions, its a fair assessment that their support staff could be pared by 10%, to stay in line with previous revenues/demands. that is at least 400 of the jobs. If YOU ran the business, and continue to see losses in revenue in your main business line with no real good option to turn it around (WoW is old and dying a slow death), you have to sadly make the decision to let people go.
looks like it might be a good lvl 30-40 build for a barb to deal with the hordes of doom, but what do i know? I am horrible at theory crafting, I need to play it to learn it. Thats why I hope this is truly a Lucky build more than a good build. lol
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The only flaw i see with their issues is the lack of multiple US/EU servers to lessen the load on each individual AH. Say US East/Midwest/West, etc.
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The whole part of diablo is the replayability, 3 more levels of difficulty, many events/side quests you have never seen or done. Every new difficulty adds more layers of what to pay attention to, sure you may overpower diablo in Normal, as its possible to out level him if you do all the quests and what not. Harder to do in Nightmare, virtually impossible in Hell, and your cannon fodder in Inferno
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wont get to fully devote time till mid june when school is out and I go down to my PT job.
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I guess i got nothin to complain about...
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for in game, I found that Skype in the background, once you switch on push-to-talk is an awesome free voice chat... beats typing any day.
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Wizard
WD/Demon (tie)
Barbarian
I went in thinking the Demon and Barb would be my favorites, i liked them both, but the others all showed alot more "fun" than expected
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I would bet the call came from Activision to make the layoffs. Also, Layoffs have happened in EVERY industry, EVERY job sector, and continue to happen in this economy in this country and around the world.
I read the estimate of 4000 WoW support staff, and if you consider WoW alon has lost over 10% of its subscriptions, its a fair assessment that their support staff could be pared by 10%, to stay in line with previous revenues/demands. that is at least 400 of the jobs. If YOU ran the business, and continue to see losses in revenue in your main business line with no real good option to turn it around (WoW is old and dying a slow death), you have to sadly make the decision to let people go.
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looks like it might be a good lvl 30-40 build for a barb to deal with the hordes of doom, but what do i know? I am horrible at theory crafting, I need to play it to learn it. Thats why I hope this is truly a Lucky build more than a good build. lol